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Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by ralusek »

eddiewithzato wrote: post #27
mikeocool wrote: post #11

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed. There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

Truthfully I find sonnet-4.5 better at Rust code than Codex (medium/high). Haven't tried anything else (like react/typescript) since I only use AI for issues/problems I don't understand.

> since I only use AI for issues/problems I don't understand

I only use [coding assistants] for problems I DO understand.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by camel-cdr »

mikeocool wrote: post #11

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed. There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

I'm quite confused by the comments you got on this one, surely half of them must be satirical?

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by distances »

loveparade wrote: post #29
extr wrote: post #5

Notice how pricing is the top discussion theme. People love free shit and it's hard to deny codex usage limits are more generous. My 2c for someone who uses both tools pretty consistently in an enterprise context: - Codex-medium is better if you have a well articulated plan you "merely" need to execute on, need help finding a bug, have some specific complex piece of logic you need to tweak, truly need a ton of long r…

Interesting, my experience has been the opposite. I've been running Codex and Sonnet 4.5 side by side the past few weeks, and Codex gives me better results 90% of the time, pretty much across all tasks. Where Claude really shines is that it's much faster than codex. So if I know exactly what I want or if it's a simpler task I feel comfortable giving it to Claude because I don't want to wait for Codex to work through…

My experience is similar. So most of the work I do with Claude as I like the small tasks / fast iteration pair coding experience. When I need to investigate some issues I let Codex handle it, and check back in 10 minutes when it's ready. But Codex is way too slow for the pair programming style of work.

Also, most of the time Codex opts to use Python to edit files. Those edits are unreviewable so it's even less interactive, you just have to let it finish and check the outcome.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

nl wrote: post #32
mikeocool wrote: post #11

Reading the comments and posts about both Claude Code and Codex on Reddit (and often hacker news), it’s hard to imagine they’re not extremely astroturfed. There seems to be constant stream of not terribly interesting or unique “my Claude code/codex success story” blog posts that mange to solicit so many upvotes.

I dunno. I've been coding for 30 years. Using Codex I'm finally enjoying it again for the first time in maybe 15 years. Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on. And I tell everyone I can how transformational it has been for me.

Your comment is obviously not AI generated, but since we were talking about astroturfing on Reddit and which presumably is done a lot by bots, it's interesting to me when I read comments on what kind of triggers my inner LLM detector.

> Outsource all that annoying part? Heck yeah - bring it on.

This sentence really and some of your other cadence somehow triggers my sense a lot. Or the comment somehow feels sloganish, formulaic. Not trying to criticise or offend, just thought it's interesting how it triggers this in my brain. And I do agree with you.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by ragequittah »

Aeolun wrote: post #39
jxf wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?

I’ll tell you something. I love working with Claude. It’s enthusiastic, it’s nice, it’ll give you suggestions. It’s an all around pleasant experience. I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really. But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage lim…

This is my experience as well. Codex is very verbose which is annoying considering the limits. My work flow tends to be have Claude code describe the problem (succinct as it can) based on my mashing of the keyboard description of what I want done then send that to codex. I've tried it the other way around doesn't work nearly as good. Disclaimer: not using the 5 prompts per week opus.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by [deleted] »

100721 wrote: post #28
fragmede wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In life, it helps to be skeptical, so the real question is where do I find real life humans to ask about their experiences? And even then, they could still be paid actors. Though, I've often wondered how would that work. Like, the marketing department staffed by hot people finds developers and then offers to Venmo them $500 to write something nice online about the product? It's a big Internet, and there's a lot of pe…

One thing worth taking into account is the practice of finding people who actually like the product, and then paying them to write an honest review. I find this to be much closer to ethical than paying exclusively for positive reviews to people who may not have ever used the product, but it has a similar net effect of distorting the sentiment by amplifying a subset of opinions, so still not ideal but at least it’s ro…

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Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by sunaookami »

atlgator wrote: post #37

It looks like you have not reviewed r/ClaudeAI. This is a much larger subreddit and most of the posts are about Claude Code. Many comparisons of CC vs Codex.

This sub is full of "vibe coders" that use "prompt engineered" 1000 line prompts with 500 MCPs and then complain that they reach their limit in the first day while using the 200$ max plan.

Re: Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

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Post by elcritch »

Aeolun wrote: post #39
jxf wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you also use Claude, and you like Codex better, or are you making a more general observation about the leapfrog in creative power agents are bringing to engineering?

I’ll tell you something. I love working with Claude. It’s enthusiastic, it’s nice, it’ll give you suggestions. It’s an all around pleasant experience. I hate working with codex. It feels like a machine. You tell it to do something, and it just does it. No pretension at being human, or enthusiastic, or anything really. But codex almost always does it right. And the comments are right, I never run into random usage lim…

Personally I prefer Codex's less-chatty nature nice. I prefer to save my human emotions for humans.
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